[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:23:59AM +0200, Olivier Biot wrote:
> I spotted another issue: the HTML files are based on the generated
> short AUTHORS file; it gets incorrectly incorporated into the HTML
> documentation. This is probably also the case for the UNIX man pages.
> 
> Do for example a grep on 'mayer' in order to understand what I mean.
> You'll see 2 unexpected characters instead of a
> "lowercase-O-with-German-Umlaut".

Presumably you mean "ISO 8859-1 lowercase-O-with-German-Umlaut" (or, to
use the term in the ISO 8859-1 files I have, "LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH
DIAERESIS", perhaps because there are languages other than German that
use that glyph - BTW, what umlauts are there *other* than the German
one? :-), the code for which might mean something other than
"lowercase-O-with-umlaut" in other character encodings, e.g.  other ISO
8859 encodings (although those might all have lowercase-O-with-diaresis
there - 8859-2 appears to have it there, for example), various two-byte
Asian character sets (in which case it might be, for example, the first
byte of a two-byte character), or UTF-8.

So how *should* we deal with the UTF-8 in the AUTHORS file when copying
the authors to the man pages?